First, the 2 giveaway winners!
Georgetown Cottage Crafts winner is #49 – Gail who said she loved the blue shellbox.
Thermacell lantern winner is #70 – Linh C – who said she sweats a lot and would love to try it. 🙂 I think Linh lives here in Birmingham. Congrats to you both!!
Ya’ll really got excited over that Thermacell skeeter lantern and I can understand why. I was so happy that it’s working for me so I can enjoy that porch now. I will show you the refills that I just bought.
Our Academy stores have refills, so I got this box from them, at $19.99, there are 4 cartridges and 12 mats, so this should last me the rest of the summer, I hope. One thing I do want to mention. Each cartridge is supposed to last 12 hrs., but it didn’t last that long for me. My cartridge probably lasted 5-6 hours at most. So, that was my experience and I wanted to let you know that up front. But I think this combo pack is not a bad price, once you get the lantern. Totally worth it to repel those bad boys!
The mats slide into the top of the lantern and start off blue when they are new. You change them when they turn white. My kit came with one cartridge and 3 mats and I forgot to change the mat, so I have extras now, but it’s probably important to notice that too and change when needed.
The cartridges screw up inside the lantern and release the repellent through the mat. So, that’s how it works, just wanted to pass that along. I hope it works for all of you too, if you do decide to try it. I’m very pleased with it. The skeeters disappeared within about 5-7 minutes of turning it on. The good thing is you can turn it on and off and save the repellent for when you are outside. Now that I know how long it lasts, I will be more careful with turning it off.
I took a little break this weekend from yardsaling (I know, imagine that!), but will share last weekend’s fun. Here’s my thrifty treasure for the week though. Remember that pottery class that we got to participate in?  Well, we finally got them back and this is the final of my 3 pieces of pottery that I got to do in class and I love how it turned out. WOW, what a difference the glaze and firing does to that lumpy clay.  It was fun to go back to my post and see the before shots of the clay. Very proud of my little pieces, I am! And this pic was taken with my NEW camera! I am loving the shots that are coming out of this camera, so stay tuned for more. Right now, it will be a mix of new and old camera shots.
All the rest of these following photos are from my old Canon camera.
This is Wendy, one of my online decorating friends from way back. We were both on a long-time decorating board for several years, which is still together, but much smaller and less active than it used to be. I don’t have time anymore with blogging taking over. Wendy is a California girl (Orange County) and was in Atlanta on business last week, so she drove over to Oxford/Anniston, AL to meet up with me and we had fun browsing around a few antique shops and catching up on news. We have met up several other times before over the years. We started at Starbucks for coffee and then headed out.
This is an antiques store in downtown Oxford and we browsed in there first.
Lots of pretty pieces in here and some good candidates for a paint job.
You never know what you’ll see in an antiques store.
Me and Wendy.
We then moved on to Apple Barrel Antiques, a small mall which was full of lots of things.
Loved the old fashioned appeal of this vintage fabric. Wouldn’t this be pretty on a porch?
There was one whole area of white shabby chic furniture that you shabby chic girls would have loved.
Love, love this old door! I should have checked the price on this.Â
Chippy white shutters.
Lots of pretty eye candy.
Shabby chic galore.
These old vintage chairs were cute too.
Lovely green bowls.
A pretty white painted bed.
I adored this old bamboo table. So cute!
Jadite for the collector.
And then Wendy had to say goodbye and drive back to Atlanta to hop on a plane back to California. It was great to see her again, always fun to catch up with old friends! Wendy’s job is an engineer (she is a brainiac!), but she is also a fabulous decorator too.  Check out that Nisson Cube, have you ever seen one of those? I hadn’t, they are cute. 🙂
On the way back home, I stopped at this old little school that I had seen many times on Hwy. 119 after you go through Leeds and it has always caught my eye, so I decided to stop and take some pics.
Looks like Little House on the Prairie one-room schoolhouse doesn’t it?
1916 is the date it was opened. Love this little old school.
So, now it’s YOUR turn for the party this week! What have YOU found lately. Add your link to the Linky list and remember our guidelines for the party:
- Add your permalink to the link list, which is the actual post that you did for this party, NOT your general blog url. To get the actual post, after you publish the post, just click on the title and THAT will be your party post url. Last year, I can’t tell you how many links I had to fix. This year I might get mean & delete them, so PLEASE try to get the correct url in the first time! 🙂
- Please add my button to your post or blog OR at least link back to this post in your post. That’s all I ask. It’s common courtesy to link back to the person having the party, so that all of your readers can find it too.
- Please do NOT link to an Etsy shop or something similar (even if you think it’s a fabulous deal) or I will delete the link. This party is for sharing thrifty finds from yardsales, thriftstores, or something along those lines. If I see that your post is not really on track with this theme AND you don’t link back, I’ll delete your link. Sorry, but I’d like to keep the party consistent! IF YOU SEE THAT YOUR LINK HAS BEEN DELETED, IT IS PROBABLY BECAUSE IT IS NOT IN LINE WITH THIS PARTY THEME.
Let’s have some fun this week with the Thrifty Treasures party!
Wasn’t Apple Barrel antiques a blast? It’s only about 45 mins from me and they also have a 2nd store in Bremen which is about 10 mins from me. I, too, loved the shabby area. The lady that owns that booth has another booth here in town and her stuff is amazing. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!!
I LOVE your new camera pics!!!!!
And I LOVE your pottery!!!!!!!! Was it fun making it?!?!? I find doing stuff like that with my hands soooooooo soothing!!!!!
Well, I’ve been absent for a while but finally got back around to posting about thrifty stuff today and am in love with these thrifty columns.
Really old.
Really full of character.
Like me!
HA! 🙂
Love, hugs and turquoise joy and blessings to you this Lord’s day,
Lana
I would love to visit that antique shop. Wonderful things there.
You and Wendy look great! Loved the photos.
It looks like ya’ll had a wonderful time! Thanks for letting us tag along.
Also, thanks for hosting this wonderful party.
gail
Look at all those goodies!! I about squealed when I saw the cowboys. Our church starts VBS tomorrow and the theme is all about ranches, cowboys, etc. The teachers go all out decorating (I saw a covered wagon and real saddles in one room!) and they would have loved those cowboys. 🙂
Thanks so much for hosting, Rhoda!!
What a fun post! I think my friend Steph and I might need to be looking into some antique stores when the garage sales slow down.
I would have died to add some of that Jadeite to my collection. Gorgeous!
Thanks for the party time!
Loved checking out all the beautiful pics! I would love to have that bedframe or those Homer Laughlin bowls! Thanks for hosting!
Rhoda,
I love Apple Barrel Antiques. Al has to go to Anniston on business every couple of months. I always jump in and go with him so I can junk all day.
Your pottery is wonderful!
Rhonda
Looks like you had a wonderful time with your friend doing some antiquing. I know you are loving your new camera. It really takes good pictures. Love & blessings from NC!
Rhoda, I have been to Apple Barrel Antiques before. Didn’t buy anything, but enjoyed looking around. We stopped there on our way to Mississippi.
I couldn’t believe when I saw the green bowl on the left…my mother has one exactly like it that she’s had for as long as I can remember!
I’ll be sure to let you know how the ThermaCell works for me. Thanks again for the prize. 🙂
Love that white painted bed!!
I’ve been wondering when you were going to let us see some pics taken with that fance-snancy camera!! Looking forward to more!!
I must say you have some really nice places to shop – love all that Jadite and barkcloth looking pillow.
man, i love that first hutch. modern and classic all at the same time, plus it didn’t look like a mammoth piece. looked like something that could actually fit in my little cape!
IT looks like fun. I love that door and the jadite. Thanks for hosting.
Rhoda you look great in that dress! Love the greean bowls and that vintage pillow!
Karena
Art by Karena
What a wonderful day! You must have had so much fun with your friend!
Thank you so much for hosting! Have a gorgeous week!
: )
Julie M.
I love reading your thrifty adventures 😀 They always inspire me to keep having my own, too!
What a fun time! My favorite thing to do is hunt thru Antique Shops. This past wkend we went thru my FIL’s barns, I brought back lots of Thrifty Treasurers. I can hardly wait to share them.
Thanks so much for hosting!
I also wanted to mention that my new blog, It’s A Blog Party, is a different linky party everyday. I’d love for you to come visit!
http://itsablogparty.com
~Liz